The Moon and Neptune will make a close approach, passing within 0°11' of each other. The Moon will be 25 days old.

From Ashburn (click to change), the pair will be difficult to observe as they will appear no higher than 16° above the horizon. They will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 04:27 (EDT) – 1 hour and 56 minutes before the Sun – and reach an altitude of 16° above the south-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 06:05.

The Moon will be at mag -10.8, and Neptune at mag 7.9, both in the constellation Aquarius.

The pair will be close enough to fit within the field of view of a telescope,
but will also be visible
through a pair of binoculars.

A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and
Neptune around the time of closest approach is
available here.

The positions of the two objects at the moment of closest approach will be as follows:

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE405 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.